Twins with very different names

I remember reading on an old thread someone who'd gone to school with twin girls, one named by each parent. They described the names as being comparable to Seraphina Violetta and Lisa Louise. With something like that, you could expect a few questions.
But, no, it's perfectly normal to just choose two names you like, that's what I did with my twins.

It doesn’t matter, I prefer it when they don’t match, my sisters who are twins have very different names.

I think it’s weird with twins if they have very different styles of names. Sorry, but I do

Why?

Men have very different names, no one has ever commented and in their big high school teachers never link them together (even the one shared class they attend the teacher didn’t twig till parents evening)

They don’t get ‘lumped’ together like the other 8 pairs in their year.

I think it’s a good thing that your twins have divergent names, OP. Matchy-matchy twin names are very twee and it’s no bad thing to establish them as distinct individuals from an early age.

Ignore the idiots, @FirstTimeMumOfTwins. You are right to name them a) something you & your DP like and b) as individuals. As long as it's not like Pegasus & Brian I can't see why anyone feels the urge to comment.

I think it's far more bizzare to give a child the same first name as a parent, so David Smith has a son and they name him....David Smith. Lots more d people justify this.

I think the trend for matching twin names, or eve sibling names, is quite bizarre. Pick the names you want, OP, and ignore what anyone else thinks.

I think it’s weird with twins if they have very different styles of names. Sorry, but I do. Twins are more likely to be linked than just normal siblings, being exactly the same age.

Totally different names are better than Jerry and Kerry but not much imo.

they don't have the same number of syllables or start with the same letter (so not Bill and Ben)

I have twins and really notice how they are portrayed on TV with matching names - I find it said they aren’t given equal individuality.

Jusr compare the names of Elon Musks children and you'll feel much better. With you at least they're all human british names.

It's much more stupid to have an Ann and Dan or Eric and Derek.

We chose our DT’s names because we liked them - not because they go together, have similarities (they don’t). They are siblings not joined at the hip. Being an individual was more important to us when deciding on their names - we had enough to consider ensuring the names worked in my mother tongue, DH’s and where we were living - the names had to be pronounceable in three languages.

Twins with matching names? I don't know any. Why would you do it? Especially if they're identical twins? Bloody hell, let them have something that is theirs and theirs alone, without being linked to another person for once.

I think people are thinking matching as in Bill and Ben. I would have chosen the same type of name, e.g. both classic or modern, not two very different ones. I wouldn't want one of them to think she drew the short straw.

Lots of families have children with names which don't 'go' - perhaps because some are adopted, or they're a blended family, or some are half siblings.

My siblings names don't go with mine. They're all from my Dad's first marriage. My Mam is Welsh so I have a Welsh name. We've never had any comments about the difference.

Don't worry about it OP. It's good to ensure that twins aren't too matchy, so as long as you don't have Sheri and Teri, I think you're good.

Twins named Cerys and Rosie wouldn't strike me as odd at all. So if your girls have names with a similar style, I wouldn't even notice.

Two of my children have names that “match”. When I was contemplating the second name over 10 years ago a poster on here told me that they would be “ridiculed at parties” as an absurdity.

So you can’t win

BTW I called my second DC and can confirm that neither they nor I have ever been ridiculed, although perhaps it all goes on behind my back

As someone with more than one set of twins in our wider family, and lots of twin friends, matching is weird. The twins names are all fairly classic but they don't have the same number of syllables or start with the same letter (so not Bill and Ben). They're all individuals.

Tallulah and Doris.

Personally I think it's so much nicer that they don't match.
It tells people right away that they are individuals and it sounds like they are not at odds with each other like some of the examples pps mentioned.

They're two separate individuals. Why do the names have to 'match'?

If they’re along the lines of Cerys and Rosie, that is fine imo. Isn’t it more that people like an opinion on anything? Opinions on having children for example. You’re not having children or having them too young or too old or too many or too few, etc, you’re selfish.

Its about having names you like. Often all siblings names 'match' as its about taste and so often you like similar sounding/themed sort of names.

The times this doesn't happen in my experience is when the siblings are half or if there is a big gap between the children.

I wouldn't give such ridiculous comments head space. I'm sure your daughters names are lovely and you both liking them is the main thing.

Nah they're two individuals.